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ENTRY FIRST AND THIRD C V Whitneys Jabot Wins Rock inghams Principal Offering Springsteel Breaks Down in Race Raceand and Is Destroyed Second SecondLargest Largest Crowd of Meeting1 SALEM N H June 30 Jabot threeyear old daughter of Sickle and Frilette showed herself a sprinter of parts in taking the Colonel Pierce Trophy and Speed Handicap 5000added feature of todays sport at Rockingham Park The C V Whitney filly reached the end a length and a half to the ood of Chinese Empress performing for A Bartelstein while Trumpery a stablemate of the winner lasted to take third from Black Hand HandA A mishap occurred in the running when the sterling handicap performer Springsteel broke his shoulder The gallant fiveyear old was led from the track nodding badly and was humanely destroyed destroyedFrom From a good start Chinese Empress rushed out to show the way and before the first quarter mile had been negotiated had opened up a lead of four lengths The Whitney pair were nearest in attendance of the pace with the colt just in advance of the filly Black Hand was right there and the others were closely bunched and it was leaving the backstretch that Springsteel suf ¬ fered his accident accidentAs As Burke was attempting to ease the Sir Greysteel gelding back he stumbled Chinese Empress was still out in front as the stretch was neared and Jabot was taken to the outside when making her move Workman on Trumpery elected to go to the inside A furlong from the finish the Sickle filly had gained command Chinese Empress was close to the inner rail and Trumpery had made his charge on the inside but was blocked He then was steadied along on the inside while Jabot drew away steadily and was going away at the finish The Bartel ¬ stein filly had held on in tenacious fashion and had a half length to the good of Trumpery TrumperyGood Good Advice after being shuffled back at Continued on twentyninth page ENTRY FIRST AND THIRD Continued from first wge the outset had never been able to gain a position of prominence The victory of Jabot added 3910 to her winnings while the C V Whitney coffers received an addi tionl 500 when Trumpery was third Trainer T J Healey had declared to win the stake with the filly though it appeared with clear sailing that either of the two were capable of accounting for major honors honorsRockinghams Rockinghams second largest crowd of the season about 28000 thronged the grand ¬ stand clubhouse and lawns striving to get a breath of air that came out of the sur ¬ rounding hills New England baked under one of the hottest days of the summer Despite thousands headed for the shore and mountain resorts to escape the heat the roads to Rockingham were black with auto ¬ mobiles and the race track specials dis ¬ gorged other thousands The crowd kept the turnstiles clicking like batteries of rapid fire guns gunsWith With the strings off the bank rolls the play was heavy and sent the total take of the mutuels well on the way to the 2000000 mark All the signs along the trial are that last seasons record handle will be smashed ere the meeting is far advanced advancedThe The biggest surprise of the meeting to date came in the opener a five furlongs dash for nonwinning juveniles when Alwin tour led for practically the entire way and paid his backers at the rate of 14170 for the usual 2 invested Just a neck back of the winner Paper Moon raced into sec ¬ ond place and Lucky Buck crossed over the line in third place showing the way to Great Master MasterDozana Dozana from the Silver Stock Farm way returned the winner over the nine other maiden juveniles that made up the field for the second offering Just a neck back of the winner the lightly regarded Dancing Queen took second place and Khelaboo after forcing most of the pace lasted to de ¬ feat Petee Blue for third place placeBlue Blue Foam racing for Mrs J H Whitney beat home the platers that opposed her in the third race on the program Flying Don performing right back to his previous splen ¬ did effort finished second and Santerno came from last place to take third Flash ¬ ing Thru and Vacillate had the most speed and set the early pace Leaving the back stretch Flying Don had Vacillate headed and Haines was holding to fifth place with Blue Foam FoamAs As the pacemaker tired near the stretch Flying Don forged to the front At this time Blue Foam was taken to the outside and set sail for the leader It was not until inside the last sixteenth that Blue Foam had overtaken the leader to beat him to the line by a half length lengthFiveyearolds Fiveyearolds raced one mile under claim ¬ ing conditions in the sixth race Of the five Speedy Skippy proved best in the running by coming from the rear in the stretch The Paicines gelding wore down the leaders and beat Mumsie by a length without need of undue punishment Mumsie after essaying to make all the running repulsed bids from both Lepnie and Postscript but the Baroni racer proved to have too much speed for the pacemaker and the filly was forced to be content with second place well clear of Leonie The latter barely held on long enough to outlast Postscript
